Quotes About Fools
1.A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
2.It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
3.You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
4.Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
5..A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
6.You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
7.The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
8.He’s a fool that marries, but he’s a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
9.However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
10.Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
11.I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
12.I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
13.A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
14.A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
15.My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
16.Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
17.Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
18.I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
19.Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
20.I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.
21.To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
22.If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me
23.It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.
24.If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
25.A fool and his money are soon elected.
26.Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
27.It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
28.He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
29.Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
30.A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
31.If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
32.Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
33.No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
34.There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
35.Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
36.The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
37.If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
38.People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
39.Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
40.The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.
41.Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
42.I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
43.Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
44.That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
45.It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
46.He who hesitates is a damned fool.
47.If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
48.A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
49.The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
50.A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
51.There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
52.There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.
53.The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
54.The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
55.The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
56.He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
57.The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
58.A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
59.Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
60.Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
